University of Alabama - Birmingham
Russ Fine, PhD, MSPH
Phone: 205-934-1448
E-mail: rfine@uab.edu
1530 Third Ave. South
401 Community Health Services Bldg.
Birmingham, AL 35294-2041
Contact
Persons:
Jay Goldman, DSc, MS
Associate Director for Research and Scientific Oversight
jgoldman@uab.edu
Kurt Denninghoff, MD
Associate Director for Education, Training and Service
kdenning@uabmc.edu
Gail Hardin
Executive Assistant
Gail.Hardin@uabmc.edu
Overview
The UAB Injury Control Research Center’s (UAB-ICRC’s) theme, rehabilitation, is an outgrowth of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s historic focus on the rehabilitation of catastrophically injured persons. The UAB-ICRC’s mission is to help the nation significantly reduce injury-related morbidity, mortality, and disability, particularly in the Southeast. The Center’s overarching objective is to help increase the injury control capacity of UAB and collaborating entities at the local, state, regional, and national levels. This objective is achieved through rigorous research, community-based practice, comprehensive training, and innovative public service initiatives.
The Center’s specific aims and objectives, which parallel key issues discussed in Injury in America and Injury Control in the 1990s: A National Plan for Action, include
- Improving practices and processes that will help injured persons achieve their maximum potential
- Stimulating faculty development in rehabilitation, primary prevention (including the prevention of injuries resulting from violence), acute care, biomechanics, and epidemiology through research, training, and public service projects
- Training health care workers and other practitioners, scientists, and students in the discipline of injury control
- Providing technical assistance and disseminating information to support the nation’s injury control agenda
- Promoting explicit injury control initiatives that target high-risk populations
All of the Center’s research activities fit into one of three core areas: rehabilitation, acute care, and prevention (which includes a focus on biomechanics research). Within these cores, activities fall within one of two research domains: behavioral interventions for injury control or environmental interventions for injury control.
Research projects are categorized as either primary or secondary. Primary projects are those initiatives principally supported by UAB-ICRC resources. All of the Center’s primary projects are intervention-oriented. Secondary projects receive the bulk of their funding from non-ICRC sources and very modest support from the ICRC. In return, secondary-project research teams participate in a range
of ICRC-driven research dissemination activities including research-in-progress seminars, publications, presentations at professional meetings, and progress reports submitted to a variety of intramural and extramural entities, including the primary sponsor.
Projects